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FEATHER RENOVATOR. No. 324,463. Patented Aug. 18, 1885.

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PATENT rrrcr i HENRY ELDRIDGE, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.-

FEATH ER-RENOVATO R.

CPECIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,463, dated August 18, 1885.

Application filed April .23, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ELDRIDGE, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, and residing at the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feather-Renovators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to feather-renovating devices, and is an improvement therein.

The object of my invention is to provide a more complete and satisfactory device than those heretofore produced. These objects I accomplish in the manner'and by the meclr anism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of the device, with portions broken away so as to illustrate the position of the steam-chamber V, inlet-f, and outlet 70, and ventilating-door e d. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same device, and having also portions of it broken away so as to further illustrate steam chamber V, tick filling device m, steam-pipes S, and steanrchambei's V, together with agitating device \V. Figs. 3 and 4. are end views of the same device, further illustrating. the location of the several steam-pipes. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the same device and in the line 00 y of Fig. 2, and illustrates the position of the guard g, ventilating-door t 'r, steam-pipes S, slide-door c, and agitating-wings WV. Fig. 6 is a top view of A with a portion of 0 broken away, and further illustrates the location of the steampipes S and steam-chamber V.

Similar letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

Heretofore it has been common to employ steam in renovating feat-hers; but the devices heretofore proposed or produced have been,

so far as I am aware, crude and defective, not only as regards the renovating of the feathers, but also in the methods and manner of drying them. These objectionable features are overcome by the device here illustrated.

This device may be operated by hand or by other power. It represents a winch, and \V a pulley-Wheel, and W are the agitating-wings which they are designed to operate.

A is the upper half of the device, and is disti not and separate from the lower half, A.

the steam-chambers V and V.

V is a steamchamber occupying a portion of the top of A (see Fig. 5) and the whole of each end of A. (See Fig. l.) 1

6 cl and t i are ventilating-doors, composed of Wire-gauze and tin, t and e representing the tin and d and 1' the wire-gauze. One of these doors is located at the top of A, (e (1,) and the other at the side.

9 is a metallic shield or awning, designed to direct downward the escaping dust from the feathers. c is a slidedoor controlling the chute m.

In the lower half of the device, A, are located two steam-chambers,V V-one at each end of A-and these are connected by steampipes S. Over these is a metallic shield, O, which forms the floor of the feather-chamber, within which W is revolved. This shield is perforated at one end, so as to admit within the feather-chamberthe steam direct from the pipes q and p. Y

n, a, andZ are pipes, leading to and from the chambers V and V, and la and f are steampipes leading to and from the steam-chambers V in the upper half of the device.

S is any suitable foundation for sustaining and supporting the whole device.

The" operation of the device is as follows, viz: The doors t, r, and a being closed, the feathers areintroduced through the door 0 d to the chamber occupied by the agitating device \V. e d is then closed, and steam from the pipes q p is admitted directly upon the feathers, and they are meanwhile agitated by W until cleansed. The tin doors t and e are then thrown open and steam admitted to the drying or steam chambers V and V through the pipes to and f, and the steam-pipes q and p are closed by means of a cock, (with which all pipes are provided.) The feathers are then agitated as before and subjected to hot air produced within their chamber by means of This hot air, together with the ventilating current through the screen-doors d and r not only dries the feathers, but throws the impurities driven off from them out through the door 1-, while the space within the chamber and above the agitating device is sufficient to permit every fiber of the feathers to expand and assume their original proportions, and when sufficiently driedthe door 0 is opened and the greater portion of the feathers may be forced through at into their proper tick or container by means of \V.

\Viththe above description and the accompanying drawings it is believed that any person skilled in the art to which this invention appertains could readily construct and use the same.

I am aware that it has been heretofore proposed to construct feathcrrenovators having; a revolving beater located within a drum, said drum having a steam -jacketed bottom and pipes for admitting steam into the body of the drum, and having a cover provided with ventilating-openings. I do not claim, broadly, such combination of parts.

hat I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

cated, respectively, in the side and top of the 0 cover.

HENRY ELDRTDG E.

Witnesses:

YVEsLY G. REED, SILAS J. DoUcLAss. 

